Friendfeed gains Momentum, Thank you Twitter

(friendfeed gives you more depth and connectivity)

Twitter shat itself a big one last night with the removal of @reply notifications.

I saw this tweet:
"Twitter just lobotomized itself -http://chaoticnerdy.com/?p=293" -@starmike

I totally couldn't believe it!

This basically opened a HUGE door to Friendfeed...massive addage to friendfeed accounts I'm sure happened.
Not only did Twitter NOT publically announce this change, when they finally acknowledged it, they lied at first as to the reason of this service removal. They said it was about usability but it turned out it was actually because Twitter was about to break...so they had to remove the feature.

Had they been upfront about this, people would have been more understanding. Instead, there's a huge movement going on and people are already coaxing their friends to move to friendfeed....
Friendfeed has always had one drawback to its usage.....no one was on it.

"friendfeed seems to be like the social networking equivalent of WalMart - a one stop shop - but without the badly treated workforce..." -@eljeppy

It's like a one stop shop for all your lifecasting but everyone has been twitter stalled. There were ways to make faux copies of your friends on Friendfeed, but to be honest, it's just not the same.
And the beauty is that once you add all social networks and feeds to your account, that's it.. you're done. Sit back and it does all the stalking for you....LIVE!

Why settle for someone's twitters in lag intervals when you can get not only their twitter but their flickr, blog, bookmarks, shares, videos, etc in a live stream?

Added to that the ability to chat live from any of the posts (including gchat integration).
Example:
So @jemimus posts a picture in twitter, from the friendfeed stream or from the desktop client, I can start responding back and he can return a comment back.
@eljeppy sees the convo going from his desktop client notifier and joins the chat via comment. All of this happening live....
NO slow ass @replies form those stagnated twitter haphazard convos.

I know not everyone gets social media. I realize not everyone is as addicted to connectivity as I am. I'm not even saying I hate twitter. It's base functionality is still superb and adequate for what I need.

But the amount of depth you gain from advancing to better media only enriches our ability to share and experience in this space.

So I have to thank Twitter for this little snafoo. Now I can have my twitter and eat skittles too.. no wait.. urr.. sorry no good pun equivalent for this one.

PS. When you create a new Friendfeed account make it public..and lemme know what your account name is so I can add you to my "to-stalk" group. :D (oh yeah! built in groups! forgot to mention that as a major plus for friendfeed as well)

Added comment: While creating my friendfeed account, I chose the public option. But on completion, it was not public. So doublecheck your options after completing registration. -Ashayo

PPS. Duh.. http://friendfeed.com/alachia

LOL UPDATE 4:38pm central May 13, 2009: Twitter Reverses Policy Change, For Now. This is Nuts But Here's How It Works